Jeremy Harding
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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about what it is that outsiders have to say about the continent, whether they're NGO people or journalists like me or travel writers or whatever it is.
There is a deep-rooted skepticism about these people.
they come in they have a look they see this they say that say see that then off they go and they they write about their stuff and this kind of this corresponds to a general kind of skepticism not an outright cynicism about aid which which when anna has him he's very very funny about aid i mean you know where it's going and who who these wonderful people are coming in ngos to look after us there's a fabulous description one day somewhere outside of nairobi i think where
and I'm talking tons of horse shit or cow shit is collected outside this school.
It's just dumped.
know by someone running a un agency or an ngo i forget which and this stuff is there for days and you know he's thinking well you know what what kind of act of munificence is this you know what are they going to kind of bestow on us now but they've dumped all this manure outside the school and of course it's because this agency has the idea that they will run the school's electricity on biomass
which is great, you know, but it's sort of something that Winona finds terribly funny because nobody's bothered to tell, to put the word about, you know, just this load of manure arrives and, you know, you're left to work it out yourself if you're passing by, you know, that it's a good, worthy thing that the Europeans are doing in East Africa.
This is the kind of satire that,
that Wynonna was really, really sharp about.
And he was very, very sharp too about gay, about being gay and the difficulties that you risked running if you started letting the world of, as it were, European gay start to kind of tell you how it really ought to play out.
Of course he was wedded to the world of African gay.
It was an international thing for him.
But he had this anxiety that once you got talking too much about it on an international level, the wrong kinds of signals would start being sent to Africans who
who might read them the wrong way.
He was incredibly cautious and circumspect, I thought, and played his hand very, very well.
I mean, it was a marvelous remark.
I think Rusev and I may have talked about this when he's on a TEDx talk, I think, or an interview, and he's saying, you know,
I was just really worried that if I start getting into the subject of homophobia in Africa, there's only going to be trouble.
And I'm going to find myself in front of a Western interlocutor, some journalist, who says, yeah, I mean, God, homophobia in Africa, it's so awful.
We're all going to go and have to report you to the West.
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